For the first time, researchers have shown that Asian elephants in Sri Lanka are scared of honey bees, much like their African counterparts. Playbacks have been used for many years to explore the ...

Communication is crucial for elephants that live in complex multi-tiered social systems. Apart from their iconic trumpets uttered through the trunk, Asian elephants also produce species-specific ...

With the help of an acoustic camera that visualizes sound pressure, researchers investigated the calls of Asian elephants. The elephants emitted their low frequency 'rumbles' mainly through their ...

There are many instances on social media showing people being chased by wild elephants. In one viral video, two men run down a road with an elephant in close pursuit. The men are running as fast as ...

Elephants have an unusual ability to mimic and learn new sounds which scientists believe they use as a form of acoustic communication. Birds, bats, primates and marine mammals do it but Joyce Poole, ...

Working elephants of mountainous Myanmar and northeastern India haul timber or transport people by day, then return to the forest at night. In his new book titled for these elephants, Giants Of The ...

Two new female Asian elephants, 19-year-old Trong Nhi (trong-nEE) and her daughter, 9-year-old Nhi Linh (nEE-lin), are now on public view at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...

The Fort Worth Zoo announced the birth of the first female Asian elephant calf born at the zoo since 2013. FORT WORTH, Texas ...

A woman in Thailand found an unexpected visitor in her house in the middle of the night last weekend – a wild Asian elephant. “We were sleeping and woke up by a sound inside our kitchen,” said ...

In his new book,Vanishing Giants, Photographer Palani Mohan journeys across Asia, searching for the soul of theAsian Elephant While its relative in Africa flourishes, the elephant population of Asia ...